His people are dying and so is his regime. Six million have left their homes. Two million are foreign refugees.His people are Alawites and possibly the non-Sunni Arabs in Syria. The Sunni Arabs who have massacred Alawites for 1000 years are no more his people than the Germans were David ben Gurion's people. That millions of Sunni Arabs are foreign refugees is a net benefit to him, just as the Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 provided Israel with a firm demographic basis for a majority Jewish state.
Yes, they're not his people. None of them are. But his fate will be either like Gaddafi's or Saddam's. And not Putin nor Obama can save him. His and his father's cruel rule has caught up with him. His propaganda may fool some, but he's hated by Alawites, Chrisitans, Sunnis, and Shia. Possibly a few Freepers see him as a swell defender of Christianity, but Syrians clearly do not.
http://www.aawsat.net/2013/08/article55315390